More than an analytical tool: examining the ideological role of efficiency

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Efficiency, in broad terms, refers to the production of a quality good or service at the lowest cost possible. However, as the 20th century dawned, the concept of efficiency took on a more significant role, becoming the primary and socially constructed basis of administrative theory, the basic goal of both government and management. After World War II, however, efficiency fell from its intellectual perch and returned to its traditional, more utilitarian function. To better appreciate the contemporary significance of efficiency in modern administrative thought, a theoretical, political, historical and cultural analysis of it is presented.

Management Dynamics NEC, Social aspects, Models, Performance, Analysis, Industrial efficiency, Economic efficiency, Management techniques, Work measurement, Public administration

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The demanding customer and the hollow organization: meeting today's contract management challenge

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Organizations that adopt the principles of sound contracting practice reap large benefits. Developing and maintaining the relationships between contractors and customers are important to successful contracting out and to operating virtual or hollow organizations. The primary need is to maintain a group of highly skilled personnel within the customer organization. Each person in the lean customer organization should send forth responsibilities of import - handling a stable of contractors in conformity with the concepts described.

Organizational Methods NEC, Methods, Organizational effectiveness, Organizational change, Outsourcing

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